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America's Leading Woodworking AuthorityFri, 27 Mar 2015 03:21:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1By: Ted Legerhttp://www.woodworkersjournal.com/skid-row/#comment-187
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:05:25 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-187I have seen some amazing looking furniture with pallets. I saw a swing bed the other day. It had two large pallets attached together with a twin mattress on it, and made into a swinging bed under a tree. It was cool.
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Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:36:19 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-186I have recovered walnut, cherry, maple, oak, … some of it spalted and others with some of the most incredable grain. The last batch (walnut) became a large number of pens, another became a planked currly cherry table top. There has a lot of fire wood and kendling.
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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:42:04 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-185I fastened a set of large surplus pneumatic casters and a 2 X 4 tongue to a pallet and ended up with a heavy duty yard trailer to pull behind a riding mower.
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Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:26:20 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-184Have folks that are always on the lookout for solid hardwood skids. I have used them to make everything imaginable. My father heats his house with them. He will cut them up and if they have any exotic woods in them he saves them for me. The best was when I lived in Southern California. I belonged to the Orange County Woodworkers Association. Several members worked at the Long Beach docks. They would every month or so bring to the club meeting pallets/donnage that came in from overseas. Those who were willing to clean it up were often rewarded handsomely. I have had purple heart, mahogany, teak, cocobolo, iron woods, rosewood and many more rare woods. Many of these countries have wood that they consider to be everyday stuff that we think of exotic. There was not much I miss about living there, but I do miss the club and the wood we would get.
I had a friend that went to India send back art work for import. I had him build the crates that he shipped stuff back home out of rose wood so we could take them apart and make beautiful jewelry boxes out of it. I have friends that worked in countries and when they moved back from Costa Rica, Honduras, Ghana and China that did the same thing so we could get the wood out that they will not allow to be exported. Even today, I have a friend that snowbirds in Baja, Mexico. If he brings in raw wood he has to pay duty on them. Instead he builds his trailer sides out of planks of birch, ash, black walnut and sycamore that we collect the trees, mill the lumber and solar kiln dry it when he is up here in Washington. That way he has material to work with down there.
One man’s pallet is another man’s wood source.
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Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:23:00 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-183A couple of years ago, saw an ad in the local “Craig’s List”- a person wanted to get rid of 2 Bamboo skids. I risked a speeding ticket getting over to pick them up! Once back at my shop, I cut between the stringers leaving the staples ( about 10 million), and getting a lot of nice boards, short, but of good quality. I then cut very carefully between the staples in the stringers and came up with a bunch of small blocks.
The short boards became 2 cremation urns $350+ each; 2 bowls $35+ each; the blocks were glued together and became 2 sets of long-stemmed wine glasses (the glass parts from Craft Supplies USA) $42.95 per set. Plus, a few small pieces I saved aside for inlay work. Not bad for recycling and less than 30 miles round trip from my shop!! I also salvage Oak and some Fir pallets and skids. I stress ALWAYS BE CAREFUL! Use a metal detector and safety glasses!
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Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:06:44 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-182I took some skids apart and built a bench for my Lady friend for her back deck.I stained it with red oak stain. She loves it and sits on it every morning if its not raining.lol
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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:18:34 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-181we have used them to build club houses coops dog house tool shed and even a fence all for free!!!!
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Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:48:46 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-180I’m glad i found ur blog.Not everyone can provide information with proper flow. Good post.
I am going to save the URL and will definitely visit again. Keep it up.
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Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:27:48 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-179I use a chainsaw to cut the good wood around the nails
then use the rest for fire wood for boyscout campouts
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Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:47:49 +0000http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=861#comment-178A plan i liked, and had to build, was a factory cart coffee table. While trying to think of where i could salvage some “Rustic” wood, i tripped over a few big bulky skids, and the ideas were then rolling. I left a few nails for the rustic look and just hand sanded most of it. a few other salvaged boards and some wheels bought at a antique store and now my mother has a place to prop her feet.
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